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NLR 155 is now online.
Featuring Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner on the long downturn and its politics, plus Nicholas Mulder, Owen Hatherley and more.
newleftreview.org
Featuring Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner on the long downturn and its politics, plus Nicholas Mulder, Owen Hatherley and more.
newleftreview.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NLR 155 is now online.
Featuring Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner on the long downturn and its politics, plus Nicholas Mulder, Owen Hatherley and more.
newleftreview.org
Featuring Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner on the long downturn and its politics, plus Nicholas Mulder, Owen Hatherley and more.
newleftreview.org
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Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
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Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge
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“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
Merging to Survive
As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.
www.break-down.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.”
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
Read the full essay👇
China is subject to the same tendency toward stagnation as every other country within global capitalism today
‘They are the most educated generation in history, but they are living through an economic slump following decades of high-speed growth. The vision of upward mobility has waned, replaced by the rat race.’
Yun Sheng on China’s Gen Z:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Yun Sheng on China’s Gen Z:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z
A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
China is subject to the same tendency toward stagnation as every other country within global capitalism today
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Worth recalling the next time someone argues that “moderating” on the humanity of trans people is a way for Dems to win votes.
1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.
Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.
Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.
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Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.
Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Worth recalling the next time someone argues that “moderating” on the humanity of trans people is a way for Dems to win votes.
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“Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.”
China Road Trip Exposes List of Uninvestable Assets in the West
Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.
www.bloomberg.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.”
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Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation.
time.com/7319164/phil...
time.com/7319164/phil...
Why Floods Are Bringing Filipino Protesters to the Streets
Corruption in flood-control projects has enraged many Filipinos, who protested in the capital and in other regions on Sunday.
time.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation.
time.com/7319164/phil...
time.com/7319164/phil...
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This is so incredibly clear to some and i think perhaps still obscure to others. It's not an abstract thought or a gotcha. It's a sinking, gut feeling re: a causal pattern you recognize playing out on a much greater scale. Exactly how it felt in fall 2023 in the first place.
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is so incredibly clear to some and i think perhaps still obscure to others. It's not an abstract thought or a gotcha. It's a sinking, gut feeling re: a causal pattern you recognize playing out on a much greater scale. Exactly how it felt in fall 2023 in the first place.
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A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
Paying Nature’s price
“What does it mean”, asks Thea Riofrancos in Extraction, “to defend people and the planet from extraction – when others frame this same extraction as
www.the-tls.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
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I hadn't quite realized how much China's exports to the US have fallen recently. Prior to the pandemic, the US deficit with China was on the order of 2 percent of GDP. Now it's down to half a percent.
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I hadn't quite realized how much China's exports to the US have fallen recently. Prior to the pandemic, the US deficit with China was on the order of 2 percent of GDP. Now it's down to half a percent.
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I learned a lot reading @triofrancos.bsky.social new book on lithium mining, both a great intro to the economics and history as well as a frank reckoning with the contradictions of an energy transition reliant on mining. heatmap.news/energy/thea-...
Why Mining Is the Dirty Underbelly of the Clean Energy Transition
Thea Riofrancos, a professor of political science at Providence College, discusses her new book, Extraction, and the global consequences of our growing need for lithium.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I learned a lot reading @triofrancos.bsky.social new book on lithium mining, both a great intro to the economics and history as well as a frank reckoning with the contradictions of an energy transition reliant on mining. heatmap.news/energy/thea-...
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The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
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NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg.
Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.
Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.
Man Found Hanging in Tree in Vicksburg, Hours After DSU Hanging
The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg.
Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.
Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.
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3/ While America retreats from clean energy leadership, China has built end-to-end control of green supply chains: solar, batteries, EVs, wind turbines, green hydrogen. Over 75% of these projects are in Global South countries eager for this industrial capacity.
September 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
3/ While America retreats from clean energy leadership, China has built end-to-end control of green supply chains: solar, batteries, EVs, wind turbines, green hydrogen. Over 75% of these projects are in Global South countries eager for this industrial capacity.
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Syriza represented an effort to provide a parliamentary obstacle to austerity. The defeat of the movements 3 years before led many to adopt this as a last ditch effort. But its eventual coalition with a far-right party & the acceleration of austerity radically de-legitimised the "Left".
September 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Syriza represented an effort to provide a parliamentary obstacle to austerity. The defeat of the movements 3 years before led many to adopt this as a last ditch effort. But its eventual coalition with a far-right party & the acceleration of austerity radically de-legitimised the "Left".
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Many find comfort in thinking that Greece was (and remains) a peripheral outlier, with developments and reactions which are not applicable elsewhere. But its portrayal as an image of the future back in 2008 seems increasingly more apt. 1/
September 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Many find comfort in thinking that Greece was (and remains) a peripheral outlier, with developments and reactions which are not applicable elsewhere. But its portrayal as an image of the future back in 2008 seems increasingly more apt. 1/
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in a televised address hints that the peace agreement with Israel is now at risk: "What is happening now places obstacles in the way of any chance for new peace agreements and erodes the existing peace agreements - there will be serious consequences.”
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in a televised address hints that the peace agreement with Israel is now at risk: "What is happening now places obstacles in the way of any chance for new peace agreements and erodes the existing peace agreements - there will be serious consequences.”
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Now that it's reasonably clear that the far right podcaster was killed by a fellow fascist, maybe we can turn our attention to the incomparably larger number of political murders that are happening in Gaza with the support of EU and North American governments
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Now that it's reasonably clear that the far right podcaster was killed by a fellow fascist, maybe we can turn our attention to the incomparably larger number of political murders that are happening in Gaza with the support of EU and North American governments
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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In the past 36 hours, Israel has bombed:
• Palestine (Gaza)
• Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra)
• Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa)
• Tunisia (aid flotilla)
• Qatar (Doha)
• Yemen (Sanaa)
• Palestine (Gaza)
• Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra)
• Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa)
• Tunisia (aid flotilla)
• Qatar (Doha)
• Yemen (Sanaa)
September 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In the past 36 hours, Israel has bombed:
• Palestine (Gaza)
• Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra)
• Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa)
• Tunisia (aid flotilla)
• Qatar (Doha)
• Yemen (Sanaa)
• Palestine (Gaza)
• Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra)
• Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa)
• Tunisia (aid flotilla)
• Qatar (Doha)
• Yemen (Sanaa)
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Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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fantastic discussion on Alyssa's new, and essential book:
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
www.youtube.com/live/lhIs198...
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
www.youtube.com/live/lhIs198...
Free Gifts (with Alyssa Battistoni)
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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August 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
fantastic discussion on Alyssa's new, and essential book:
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
www.youtube.com/live/lhIs198...
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
www.youtube.com/live/lhIs198...
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.
July 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.